- Joined
- Dec 20, 2016
- Messages
- 42
- Reaction score
- 50
- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- cGPA = 3.27 overall, 3.15 Undergrad, 3.8 Post-Bacc
- sGPA = 3.0 overall, 2.76 Undergrad, 3.8 Post-Bacc
- Upward trend from 2.7 cGPA, 2.4 sGPA freshman year to 3.8 cGPA, 3.8 sGPA post-bacc
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- 507 - C/P 124 | CARS 129 | BB 126 | P/S 128
- Retake in May, didn't have nearly enough time during PTO for MCAT to practice C/P + BB nor study P/S
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- CA, US Citizen
- Ethnicity and/or race
- Asian - Thai? Is that ORM?
- Undergraduate institution or category
- UCLA - Psychobiology major, Applied Developmental Psychology minor (selective minor, accepts ~18-20 students twice a year)
- Formal Post-Bacc program with ~20 students accepted each year
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Clinical Research Coordinator at children's hospital ~2300 hrs - attend weekly clinic meetings for rare disease/inborn errors of metabolism + lysosomal storage disease patient cases, attend clinic visits, point of contact for research patients + families with severe, neurodegenerative conditions for gene therapies, first point of contact after really devastating diagnoses
- Emergency Medicine Scribe at Tier II trauma center in LA, ~750 hrs - avg 25-30 patients per shift
- Director for a health fair org, member for 4 years - organize, manage/oversee stations for quarterly health fairs for underserved API populations
- Care Extender, ~350 hours - keeping kiddos company, held babies, watched live births and open/closed heart surgeries
- Research experience and productivity
- Clinical Research Coordinator at children's hospital (again) - not sure whether to put under research or clinical? Coordinate/manage Phase I/II gene therapy trials, coordinated first dosing procedure for a US patient with a drug, since they're sponsor trials, harder for posters/pubs
- Research Volunteer, 3 years, 800+ hours - community-partnered participatory research for under-resourced minority families with children recently diagnosed with Autism navigate the special needs system (work ties into personal stories!), worked together/met with community stakeholders, developed intervention materials, analyzed data for projects, developed my own research project and navigated IRB, recruited, data collected, analyzed, and presented work
- Poster at international research conference for lab's project
- Oral presentations at regional undergrad conferences and post-bacc school's conference for my own project
- Poster at national conference for my own project
- Clinical Research Volunteer, 1.5 years, 360+ hrs - early biomarker study for infant sibs with Autism
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- Direct shadowing experience is low, thought scribing could count until I learned later...
- Shadowed a psychiatrist
- Rest is shadowing with my other jobs (Emergency Medicine, pediatrics biochemical genetics, multidisciplinary clinics with cardiology, endocrinology, and neurology)
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Care Navigation, 120 hours - assisting social workers and case managers for social determinants of health screenings and connecting patients to primary care
- Community Academic Council member, 50 hours - participated in knowledge exchange community-partnered meetings with academics + community stakeholders to help develop marketing materials and provide younger, diverse perspective to communicate with youths
- Others but not in 15 experiences
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- Caregiver Intern at campus childcare center, 250 hours
- Work Study Student - Brain Injury Clinical Research, 320 hours
- Co-Founder/Vice President - Women's Health club on campus, 200 hours
- Performer, Graphic Designer, Traditional Dance Coordinator, Co-Producer - Thai Culture Nights, 400 hours
- Graphic Designer, 1000 hours? including pre-college hrs
- Graphic Design Chair for college org
- Graphic Designer for Undergrad Research Journal
- Work Study Marketing Student
- Freelance designed for private practices, consulting business, start-up fashion lines, currently design instructor for an adult with Autism's Self-Determination Program with Regional Center
- COVID-19 Hackathons + pro-bono services
- Taught design classes to high schoolers
- Workshops to navigate post-bacc as alumni
- Taught classes for currently incarcerated youth
- Relevant honors or awards
- Chancellor's Service Award
- 2nd Place at campus-wide shirt design contest for campus merch
- Eligible for CA Child Development Permit at Master Teacher
- Scholarships from Post-Bacc
- Anything else not listed you think might be important
- Applying disadvantaged - Grew up low-income non-STEM family, small business, driving desire to serve marginalized populations, and advocate for data disaggregation to highlight experiences of low-income Southeast Asian experiences and overlooked populations
- SDN encouraged me to apply disadvantaged since I was reluctant to, haha
- Took time to build financial support for family, med school apps, life things (learning to drive, getting myself a car, etc)
- Inland Empire native
- Helped as caretaker for grandmother with dementia during COVID
- Applying disadvantaged - Grew up low-income non-STEM family, small business, driving desire to serve marginalized populations, and advocate for data disaggregation to highlight experiences of low-income Southeast Asian experiences and overlooked populations
Edited: LizzyM: 61.8, WARS 68
School List:
UCR
CDU/UCLA
UCLA-PRIME
UC Davis
California University of Science and Medicine
Loma Linda - personal ties/reasons for Loma Linda so ok w mission
Kaiser?? They seem to like my post-bacc program but stats
USC??
Drexel University
Loyola University Chicago Stritch
Oakland University
SUNY Downstate
New York Medical College
Stony Brook?
FIU
USF Morsani?
Michigan State MD + DO schools
University of Michigan
Wayne State
Wake Forest
Wright State
Rush Medical College
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Nova
Hackensack-Meridian
University of Toledo
DO:
Western
TouroCA
TouroNV
TouroNY
Suggestions for DO schools would be really amazing!
Thanks so much to anyone who reads all of this and their time!!
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